Title Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with Margaret Washington, associate professor of history, Cornell University. 4 of 4 / [produced by WGBH]

Published Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

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Description 1 online resource (84 min.) Summary Margaret Washington is interviewed about Harriet Jacobs and the lives of slave women, gender conventions and racism, resentment of slave women by mistresses, Butler Island and religious life, the roles of women in the slave community, literacy and education among slaves, justifications by whites for slavery, minstrel shows, northern racism, Dred Scott decision, Kansas and Nebraska Act, John Brown, moral suasion, the legacy of slavery Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017) Performer Interviewee: Margaret Washington Notes In English Subject Washington, Margaret -- Interviews Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897. SUBJECT Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897 fast Subject African Americans -- History -- To 1863. Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century Enslaved women -- United States -- Social conditions African Americans Slavery Enslaved women -- Social conditions United States Genre/Form interviews. History Interviews Unedited footage Interviews. Unedited footage. Interviews. Form Streaming video Author Smith, Llewellyn, producer, director Washington, Margaret, interviewee WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.

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